Navin Khanna
Drafting is the easy part. Understanding the business and reading a room isn’t.
CONTACT
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BIO
Navin Khanna is a partner at CP LLP, having joined the firm’s corporate and commercial practice group in 2005. His core practice involves advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments, including leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and going-private transactions.
CP LLP represents buyers and sellers of businesses of all sizes, whether early-stage or mature, and whether private or public. Navin is known for providing timely and practical strategic advice to close transactions quickly while mitigating risk.
Navin also offers a broad range of legal services to clients on matters related to commercial agreements, financing, joint ventures, licensing, distribution agreements, proprietary rights protection, intellectual property strategy, and privacy.
With a degree in electrical engineering, majoring in computer engineering, Navin provides special insights to clients operating or investing in technology and tech-enabled businesses.
Before joining CP LLP, Navin was a partner at a national Canadian law firm, where he practiced in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, technology, and related litigation for over ten years.
Prior to his legal career, Navin worked as a design engineer for Marconi plc, developing high-end graphics display systems for military and commercial aircraft avionics; for Motorola, developing mobile and two-way radio wave propagation analysis systems; and for Telesat Canada, developing the Anik E satellites.
Navin completed his B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Ottawa and his LL.B. and LL.M. at Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1994.
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
- Clean Soils Inc., in its acquisition by GFL Environmental Inc.
- New Electric Enterprises Inc., in its acquisition by Spark Power Corp.
- Channel Zero, in its agreement with Bloomberg L.P. to broadcast Bloomberg TV Canada.
- Gracious Living Inc., in its acquisition of Sherwood Hockey Inc.
- Aumento Capital II Corp. (TSXV:AQT.P) with respect to its Qualifying Transaction and the spin-out of certain B2C online gaming assets from Amaya Inc. and concurrent $70 million financing
- ZoomerMedia Limited, in its sale of Darwin CX, Inc. to Irish Studio, LLC
- Lixar SRS, Inc., in the sale of its energy business to GridPoint Inc.
- ZoomerMedia Limited, in its acquisition of Vision TV, Joy TV and ONE
- Selectpath Benefits & Financial Inc., in its acquisition by Navacord Corp.
- Green Acre Capital as lead investor in $28 million convertible debenture financing of Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. (TSX:FAF)
- Green Acre Capital Corp, in its acquisition of Friendly Stranger Corporation
- ZoomerMedia Limited, in its acquisition of the publishing business of On The Bay, Inc.
- Innovative Vision Marketing Inc. on its sale to Support Services Group Inc.
- First Ledger Corp., on the sale of its “Bitbuy” high-growth consumer finance app and digital asset portfolio business to WonderFi Technologies Inc.
- ZoomerMedia Limited, in its acquisition of blogTO
- Friendly Stranger Holdings Corp., in its acquisition by Fire & Flower Holdings Corp.
- Canadian Association of Blue Cross Plans, in its North American co-branding agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in the U.S.
- Acted for leading Canadian tech enabled health care services portfolio company on the cross border investment by a U.S. private equity fund
- Acted for ZoomerMedia Limited on its going private transaction delisting from the TSXV by way of plan of arrangement
- ZoomerMedia, on its acquisition of Curiocity Group, Inc.
- Premier Canadian snack foods company, on its divestiture to a private equity firm
- Private wealth management firm, in connection with its management buyout
- ZoomerMedia, on its acquisition of The Peak Media Collective, Inc. and Museland Media Inc.
- PesoRama Inc., in connection with a $20 million credit facility from Third Eye Capital Corporation
- Amsterdam Brewing Co. Limited, on its sale to Royal Unibrew A/S
- ZoomerMedia Limited, on its acquisition of BuzzConnected Media Inc. (DailyHive)
- HumaTerra Regen A.G. Inc., on its land and asset purchase to further the development of its living soil inoculants business for the bio-reclamation of degraded soil
- Edward Burtynsky and Wake of Progress Inc., on the development of the international outdoor and indoor immersive experience known as Wake of Progress
- Eurofins Scientific, on the acquisition of various Canadian high quality laboratory and advisory services businesses